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Celebrate British Science Week: Creative Science Workshop Day @ FACT!

MerseySTEM are pleased & proud to promote this event on behalf of FACT (The Foundation for Arts Creative & Technologies) and British Science Association.

14th March 2016 9.30am

Book to bring a group of students (Yr7/8) to FACT for a day of creative science workshops! To celebrate British Science Week, scientists and artists are taking over FACT to deliver a range of activities designed to get students excited about art and science – particularly astrophysics.

This is a special event where students will be getting hands-on with a range of professionals from the science and creative technology world. You’ll get the chance to experience four different workshops on the day:

Liverpool University’s computing department will bring their Lego Rovers, which students will learn to programme as though they are exploring other planets

Students will experience an immersive art installation showing the birth of a star, before designing and projecting their own artwork in our gallery space

Experimental creative space FACTLab will host a hands-on activity using electronics to create a ‘constellation in a cup’, exploring the mythology of constellations and why stars are grouped in that way

There will also be a programmable Minecraft map designed to demonstrate the scale of the universe around us

This is a flagship event for British Science Week, and FACT is working with The British Science Association and MerseySTEM to deliver this one-off celebration of art and science.

Students will develop teamwork skills, a curiosity about astrophysics, and see how creativity and science work hand-in-hand to discover the mysteries of the universe.

We have space for 80 students, in groups of 10 per school

Please bring a packed lunch!

Risk assessment & info sheet can be downloaded from the ‘documents’ tab on the link below.

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